References

FITS topics:

1.

Wells, D.C., Greisen, E.W., Harten, R.H. 1981, ``FITS: A Flexible Image Transport System'', Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 44, 363-370.

2.

Greisen, E.W., Harten, R.H. 1981, ``An Extension of FITS for Small Arrays of Data'', Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 44, 371-374.

3.

Grosbøl, P., Harten, R.H., Greisen, E.W., Wells, D.C. 1988, ``Generalized Extensions and Blocking Factors for FITS'', Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 73, 359-364.

4.

Harten, R.H., Grosbøl, P., Greisen, E.W., Wells, D.C. 1988, ``The FITS Table Extension'', Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 73, 365-372.

5.

NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology 1993, ``Definition of the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)'' NOST 100-1.0 Standard.

6.

Pence, W.D. 1991, ``FITSIO and FITS File Utility Software'' in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems I, edited by Worrall, D.M., Biemesderfer, C. and Barnes, J., A.S.P. Conf. Ser., 25, 22-23.

7.

Pence, W.D. 1994, ``FITSIO Subroutine Library Update'', presented at the conference Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, to appear in the A.S.P. Conf. Ser..

8.

Seaman, R.L. 1994, ``FITS Checksum Verification in the NOAO Archive'', presented at the conference Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, to appear in the A.S.P. Conf. Ser..

Checksum and error detection topics:

1.

Peterson, W.W. and Weldon Jr., E.J. 1972, Error-Correcting Codes, Second Edition (MIT Press).

2.

McNamara, J.E. 1982, Technical Aspects of Data Communication, Second Edition (Digital Press).

3.

Plummer, W.W. 1978, ``TCP Checksum Function Design'', ACM Computer Communication Review, 19, no. 2, 95-101, this is an appendix to Internet RFC 1071.

4.

Braden, R. T., Borman, D.A., and Partridge, C. 1988 (September), ``Computing the Internet Checksum'', ACM Computer Communication Review, 19, no. 2, 86-94, this is Internet RFC 1071.

5.

Mallory, T. and Kullberg, A. 1990 (January), ``Incremental Updating of the Internet Checksum'', Internet RFC 1141.

6.

Rijsinghani, A. (ed.) 1994 (May), ``Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update'', Internet RFC 1624.

7.

Zweig, J. and Partridge, C. 1990 (March), ``TCP Alternate Checksum Options'', Internet RFC 1146.

8.

Fletcher, J.G. 1982, ``An Arithmetic Checksum for Serial Transmission'', IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-30, no. 1, 247-252.

9.

Nakassis, A. 1988, ``Fletcher's Error Detection Algorithm: How to implement it efficiently and how to avoid the most common pitfalls'', ACM Computer Communication Review, 18, no. 5, 63-88.

10.

Sklower, K. 1989, ``Improving the Efficiency of the OSI Checksum Calculation'', ACM Computer Communication Review, 19, no. 5, 32-43.

11.

Rivest, R. 1992 (April), ``The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm'', Internet RFC 1321, see also RFC 1319 and RFC 1320.

12.

Zimmermann, P. 1995, The Official PGP User's Guide (MIT Press), PGP is available from http://net-dist.mit.edu/pgp.html or ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README, which also provide United States export and licensing requirements.

13.

Hungerford, T.W. 1987, Algebra, Fourth Printing (Springer-Verlag).

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